an hour ago
Not a "structure", but rather atmospheric resonance create this polygonal shape, from cyclones self-arrangement etc.
Same thing on Jupiter, by the way, known since a long time.
I'd say that "structure" is click-baity, as it evokes some artifact.
2 hours ago
There is a talk amongst Astrophysics (not a serious one) that we showed up too late as a civilization, and Universes thrived at around 5 billion years after the big bang.
Now we are 13.8 billion years old, and the Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago.
That 7+ billion year gap is so huge, we cannot even detect any structures anywhere.
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My thoughts out of my @$$
The possibility is the Mars where there is a big scar on it, where it could have had been a space war, but cannot figure out as it's been billions of years ago.
Same for the Saturn. It could have had harboring another life form and try to protect itself with the thick atmospheric shield in the gas giant to avoid the demise the Mars has encountered.
an hour ago
Hmm. i think you need a universe at least 10bn+ years for intelligent life as you need to have had cycle of earlier stars going supernovae to create the heavier elements.
That aside, 13bn years old is young. literally an instantaneous flash in the context of all time until heat death of the universe.
17 minutes ago
You see red dots/monsters on hubble or JWT.
Those are the ones fundamentally shifting theories about how early stars/blackholes/galaxies can form. (there are other factors like dark matters that can play a role but nobody knows for sure yet)
13bn years is not too young with that context in mind.
2 hours ago
>The possibility is the Mars where there is a big scar on it, where it could have had been a space war, but cannot figure out as it's been billions of years ago.
A Death Star ray just grazed Mars and ended up hitting Earth and killing the dinos. Coming soon on my Wattpad
an hour ago
I like to think that the dark forest theory is real but its just AGIs out there letting meatbags create a new AGI, and then they just reset the planet.
15 minutes ago
Whatever had happened 7 billion years ago coulda triggered what DF theory explains.
At the time there were species communicating, but all hell broke loose, and probably decided not to communicate with each other, hiding.
an hour ago
The mice are probably in on it.
39 minutes ago
"In addition to the difference in the number of sides," Sánchez-Lavega explained, "the decagon is situated at a less polar latitude than the hexagon in the southern hemisphere,
Just a thought: how do lengths of the sides compare between north pole's hexagon and this south pole decagon? Causes might be unclear but perhaps that side length corresponds to a 'wavelength' that's more-or-less a constant?
an hour ago
Years ago there was a video on YouTube showing that geometric shapes appear in a vortex of water at different rates of spin. While it is neat that these shapes appear in atmosphere of another planet I have since assumed that it is the same dynamic as shapes in water vortices.
3 hours ago
Economy so bad I'm looking up rentals in Saturn's 10 sided structure
2 hours ago
My first thought on seeing the images was "texture coordinates for a sphere are hard"
2 hours ago
The brief excitement in the space between expecting a decahedral possibly artificial structure lurking in a gas giant and finding out it's just wind.
3 hours ago
Aliens playing D&D
3 hours ago
Nah it's the simulation rendering in low poly further away. Or both.
2 hours ago
Atmospheric structure not artificial
3 hours ago
A monolith!
2 hours ago
Is it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set? The resemblance appears more acute in the images lower down in the article.
20 minutes ago
> Is it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set?
It's all just fractals all the way down?